Pottery can be hard on your body in a number of ways, and being proactive about looking after yourself is important if you want to keep doing it pain-free in the long run.
Pottery can be hard on your body in a number of ways, and being proactive about looking after yourself is important if you want to keep doing it pain-free in the long run.
A snapshot of my first 5 years as a full time potter and a few of the things I’ve learnt on the way
“Being slightly lazy and causing more work for someone else is a recipe for frustration.”
You might think that the most important thing for consistency when making glazes is how precise you are in measuring ingredients, but for some of those ingredients that might not be the case!
Glaze making is an incredibly straightforward process but knowing where to start is far trickier. There are hundreds of available ingredients, and it’s not clear which ones you should buy first. The good news is that for cone 5-7 firings, you can do almost everything with 5 ingredients in the glaze base
This glaze recipe has very quickly become one of my favourite bases, and the variation with minor changes in colourants makes it one of the most interesting.
Recipes and explanation for the Limited Edition glaze I used for Valentine’s Day 2021, a pink base glaze with darker pink and white speckles.
There are a lot of thing I don’t like about the Squarespace shop interface, but there is one thing they did well - the CSV export and import
It's always hard to know what to get someone for Christmas, but the good news is there's no shortage of options when buying for a potter.
Frit 3269 is a Boron source for firing glazes at cone 6, but it has one key difference.
My top ten tools for the studio, these (mostly cheap) tools are the ones I couldn’t work without.
It's always hard to know what to get someone for Christmas, but the good news is there's no shortage of options when buying for a potter.
How to make a simple tool to act as a guide for the holes for a teapot spout
